Jams and jellies maker J.M. Smucker Co. is expected to reach an all-stock deal later this week to acquire the Folgers coffee business from Procter & Gamble Co., The Wall Street Journal reported on its website Tuesday.

Advertising executive, author and columnist Lois Wyse, who coined the memorable catchphrase "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good," died Friday after a long struggle with stomach cancer, her family said. She was 80.

If he were not dead for nearly 500 years, Machiavelli, with his ends-justifies-the-means philosophy, might celebrate the inevitable ascension of a new standard-bearer in the pantheon of college men's basketball coaches. The world has changed. Robert Montgomery Knight hasn't.

Two days of severe storms injured dozens of people in Ohio and killed at least two, a teenage boy who was camping when a tree crashed into his tent and a firefighter who tried to rescue two teenagers from rising floodwaters.